Due to additional testing work needed by the core devs, the mainnet Dencun upgrade will be rescheduled for early next year. In the meantime, we are looking forward to connecting with fellow community members at this year's Devconnect in the culturally and historically rich city of Istanbul.

On Etherscan, we've redesigned the gas tracker page and released a feature to highlight all address occurrences on a given page upon hovering.

In this issue, our guest post examines examines the latent cultural potential of NFTs. The quiz tests your knowledge on the Blockscan Chat App. Answer it for a chance to win $10 in ETH!

Latent Cultural Potential

Turns out, NFTs aren't Beanie Babies, despite what the world believes them to be. Our guest writer Takens Theorem believes NFTs are cultural raw material and attempts to illustrate this in layers:

• Layer 1: The Artifacts
• Layer 2: The Community
• Layer 3: Cultural Dynamics

FEATURE

Redesigned Gas Tracker Page

New additions include a Gas Price Heatmap and Pending Transaction Pool Info.

FEATURE

Address Highlight

Enable in site settings to highlight upon hover occurrences of an address in a page.

Uniswap Charges 0.15% On Frontend Swaps

Distinct from the Protocol Fees, the fee applies when both token pairs are subject to fees. It earned $500k in the 1st week.

twitter.com/haydenzadams

Reddit Sunsets Community Points Beta

The 3-year-old program is being replaced by more scalable alternatives. Reddit mods involved in insider trading have been removed.

reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency

Farcaster Is Now Permissionless And Onchain

The social network is live on Optimism, offering crypto-less signup via Warpcast for a $7 fee, covering a Farcaster ID and 1 storage unit.

twitter.com/dwr

LayerZero Deploys Lido's wstETH Cross-Chain

wstETH wrapped as OFT was deployed on BNB, Avalanche, and Scroll without Lido DAO approval, sparking Open Bridge Standards discussions.

twitter.com/LayerZero_Labs

Arbitrum Orbit Is Mainnet-Ready

Customize L3 chains on Arbitrum with AnyTrust, an alternate data availability solution, and write smart contracts with Stylus.

twitter.com/arbitrum

SEAL Drills

A program that simulates cyberattacks to help organizations prepare for security incidents and improve their incident response processes.

twitter.com/samczsun

ERC/EIP Repository Split Has Officially Been Completed

All new ERCs and updates must be directed to this repository. Follow the migration guide for open PRs from ethereum/EIPs to ethereum/ERCs.

twitter.com/lightclients

Verify Transcript And Claim POAP For KZG Contributions

Verifying the KZG Ceremony Transcript ensures the security and accuracy of the ceremony outcome, while contributors can also claim a POAP.

twitter.com/trent_vanepps

Different Types Of Layer 2s

Vitalik discusses the security-scalability trade-offs in today's L2s and their connectedness with Ethereum, including chain reading and withdrawal.

vitalik.ca

Transaction: Unibot Router Contract Exploit

The token approval vulnerability has been fixed and users will be made whole. This incident resembles a recent issue at MaestroBots.

Address: Polygon Ecosystem Token (POL)

The MATIC token has been migrated to POL at a new contract address. Currently, users need not take any action for this migration.

Questions received last month:

How to read ERC-4337 transactions on Etherscan?
ERC-4337 specifies Account Abstraction through an EntryPoint contract, with bundlers handling user-initiated operations, and optional Paymasters for gas fees coverage and ERC-20 token payments. Learn more.

Why new tokens are not shown in the Token Holdings dropdown?
The dropdown shows a maximum of 100 tokens. If the address holds more tokens, they won't appear here. To view the complete list of tokens held at the address, click on the Wallet icon located next to the dropdown.

Confused with some terms in this newsletter?
Remember to check the Etherscan glossary!

Check ERC-20 token supply at a specific block or date
First, enter the ERC-20 token contract address for which you wish to inspect its historical supply for at etherscan.io/tokencheck-tool. Next, select your preferred filter by specifying either a particular date or block number.

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